Three years in California; together with excerpts from the author's Deck and port, covering his arrival in California, and a selection of his letters from Monterey
Three years in California; together with excerpts from the author's Deck and port, covering his arrival in California, and a selection of his letters from Monterey
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With reproduction of t.p. of original ed., 1859
"Published writings of Walter Colton": p. xiv
Notes
Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey, a post to which he was elected a few months later. He remained in California until 1849, using his time to found the state's first newspaper and building its first schoolhouse. Three years in California (1850) contains Colton's memoirs of that period, including descriptions of the U.S. military occupation of California, social life and customs of Monterey, discovery of gold and firsthand impressions of the Sonora mining camp in the Southern Mines, visits to Stockton and San Jos,̌ John Charles Frm̌ont, the Constitutional Convention of 1849, and California missions.
